bJohn 3:16; 1 John 4:10
cJohn 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:2, 10
dJohn 15:18, 21; 16:3
e1 John 2:7
fJohn 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 10
gRom 8:19, 23f
hLuke 17:30; Col 3:4; 1 John 2:28
iRom 8:29; 2 Pet 1:4
jJohn 17:24; 2 Cor 3:18
kRom 15:12; 1 Pet 1:3
lJohn 17:19; 2 Cor 7:1
mRom 4:15; 1 John 5:17
n1 John 1:2; 3:8
oJohn 1:29; 1 Pet 1:18-20; 1 John 2:2
p2 Cor 5:21; 1 John 2:29
q1 John 3:9
s1 John 2:3; 3 John 11
t1 John 2:1
u1 John 2:26
v1 John 2:29
wMatt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:10
yMatt 4:3
z1 John 3:5
aaJohn 12:31; 16:11
abJohn 1:13; 3:3; 1 John 2:29; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18; 3 John 11
acJohn 1:12; 11:52; Rom 8:16; 1 John 3:1, 2
adMatt 13:38; John 8:44; 1 John 3:8
afRom 13:8ff; Col 3:14; 1 Tim 1:5; 1 John 4:8
ag1 John 2:9
ah1 John 1:5
ai1 John 2:7
ajJohn 13:4f; 15:12; 1 John 4:7, 11f, 21; 2 John 5
akGen 4:8
alMatt 5:37; 1 John 2:13f
amPs 38:20; Prov 29:10; John 8:40, 41
anJohn 15:18; 17:14
aoJohn 5:24
apJohn 13:35; 1 John 2:10
aqMatt 5:21f; John 8:44
arGal 5:20f; Rev 21:8
asJohn 10:11; 15:13
atPhil 2:17; 1 Thess 2:8
au1 John 2:9
avJames 2:15f
awDeut 15:7
az1 John 4:20
ba1 John 2:1; 3:7
bb2 John 1; 3 John 1
bc1 John 2:21
bd1 John 3:2
be1 John 2:28; 5:14
bgJob 22:26f; Matt 7:7; 21:22; John 9:31
bh1 John 2:3
biJohn 8:29; Heb 13:21
bkJohn 6:29
blJohn 1:12; 2:23; 3:18
bmJohn 13:34; 15:12; 1 John 2:8
bo1 John 2:3
bpJohn 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15
bqJohn 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13
br1 John 2:5

1 John 3

Children of God Love One Another

1 See ▼
▼Lit what kind of love
 , bhow great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called cchildren of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because dit did not know Him. 2 eBeloved, now we are fchildren of God, and git has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He happears, we will be ilike Him, because we will jsee Him just as He is. 3And everyone who has this khope set on Him lpurifies himself, just as He is pure.

4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and msin is lawlessness. 5You know that He nappeared in order to otake away sins; and pin Him there is no sin. 6No one who remains in Him qsins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or ▼
▼Or has known
 , sknows Him. 7 tLittle children, make sure no one udeceives you; vthe one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8the one who practices sin is wof the devil; for the devil ▼
▼Lit sins
has been sinning from the beginning. yThe Son of God zappeared for this purpose, aato destroy the works of the devil. 9No one who has been abborn of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God. 10By this the acchildren of God and the adchildren of the devil are obvious: ▼
▼Lit everyone
anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who afdoes not love his agbrother and sister.

11 ahFor this is the message aiwhich you have heard from the beginning, ajthat we are to love one another; 12not as akCain, who was of althe evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because amhis own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if anthe world hates you. 14We know that we have aopassed out of death into life, apbecause we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who aqhates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that arno murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16We know love by this, that asHe laid down His life for us; and atwe ought to lay down our lives for the aubrothers and sisters. 17But avwhoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and awcloses his ▼
▼Lit inward parts
heart ▼
▼Lit from
against him, azhow does the love of God remain in him? 18 baLittle children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and bbtruth. 19We will know by this that we are bcof the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him, 20that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. 21 bdBeloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have beconfidence ▼
▼Lit toward
before God; 22and bgwhatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we bhkeep His commandments and do bithe things that are pleasing in His sight.

23 This is His commandment, that we ▼
▼Or believe the name
 , bkbelieve in blthe name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as bmHe ▼
▼Lit gave us a commandment
commanded us. 24The one who bokeeps His commandments bpremains in Him, and He in him. bqWe know by this that brHe remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

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